Seat of Our Pants

Our departure date for this round the world trip was April 29^th, which is just over 4 months ago. We need to be in New York, to see my incredible sister Kheli graduate from Vet school in June 2010. This makes our time on the road around 13 months. We may, depending on how well we’ve kept to our budget, drive across the States after her graduation. (Anything to put off the responsibilities waiting for us when this trip ends) That keeps us on the road an additional few months, perhaps taking the total to 16 months.

That’s a whole lot of time on the road.

How do we pass the time? Writing blog posts is an obvious answer. Reading, sight seeing and travel planning take up our time as well. What we’re currently doing, though, is writing. Martin is working on a novel and I’m working on a writing project (of some description). It might be a screenplay, it might be a novel – it changes daily at this point.

Writing is a funny thing. It’s near impossible to concentrate on it if we’re on the move. To avoid confusion (when we’re sightseeing, we’re thinking about our projects or when we’re writing, we think we should be out sightseeing), we’ve made a travel pact. When we’re in travel mode, like we’ve been for the past month, we set our writing aside. When we find a good place to write, we stop all travel, sit on our backsides and write.

Enter Ankermi, a lovely bungalow resort outside of Maumere in Flores. Not only is it a perfect place to cure traveler’s fatigue, it happens to be a fantastic place to write. The bungalows are clean and at a cost of $16/person, which includes breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner, it’s very easy on the ol’ wallet. We’ll stay here until we head to Bali on September 7^th, when we set our writing aside and take up traveling again.

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